‘Astounding’ Roman statues unearthed at Norman church ruins on route of HS2

Heads of man, woman and child found on site of Stoke Mandeville church built in 1080 and abandoned 800 years later

Statues of a Roman man, woman and child have been uncovered by archaeologists at an abandoned medieval church on the route of the HS2 high-speed railway.

The discovery was “utterly astounding”, according to Rachel Wood, the lead archaeologist at the site in Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire. “They’re really rare finds in the UK,” she said.

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